Chronology Entry
Year
1765
Text
Benjamin Franklin : To the editor of a newspaper. Monday, 20 May, 1765.
…Their engaging three hundred silk throwsters here in one week for New York was treated as a fable, because, forsooth, they have "no silk there to throw". Those, who make this objection, perhaps do not know, that, at the same time the agents from the King of Spain were at Quebec to contract for one thousand pieces of cannon to be made there for the fortification of Mexico, and at New York engaging the usual supply of woolen floor-carpets for their West India houses, other agents from the emperor of China were at Boston treating about an exchange of raw silk for wool, to be carried in Chinese junks through the Straits of Magellan…
…Their engaging three hundred silk throwsters here in one week for New York was treated as a fable, because, forsooth, they have "no silk there to throw". Those, who make this objection, perhaps do not know, that, at the same time the agents from the King of Spain were at Quebec to contract for one thousand pieces of cannon to be made there for the fortification of Mexico, and at New York engaging the usual supply of woolen floor-carpets for their West India houses, other agents from the emperor of China were at Boston treating about an exchange of raw silk for wool, to be carried in Chinese junks through the Straits of Magellan…
Mentioned People (1)
Franklin, Benjamin
(Boston 1706-1790 Philadelphia) : Staatsmann, Drucker, Verleger, Naturwissenschaftler, Erfinder, Naturphilosoph, Schriftsteller
Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1836-1840 |
Franklin, Benjamin. The works of Benjamin Franklin : containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition, and many letters, official and private, not hitherto published; with notes and a life of the author. Vol. 1-10. (Boston : Hillard Gray, 1836-1840). (Making of modern law). Vol. 7 : Correspondence. (1838). http://books.google.ch/books?hl=de&id=NwSaDKhRaN4C&q=chinese +cheese#v=snippet&q=535&f=false. |
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